Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan

Author:A. Alex Logan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: NineStar Press, magic, gay, asexual, high fantasy, dragons, LGBT, royalty, young adult, family drama, hurt/comfort
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2019-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

WHEN HE WOKE, Omar was sitting on the bed across from him, sorting through papers Gerald recognized as pages from the Who’s Who guide. He pushed away a stab of guilt that the others had been working—on my scheme, no less—while he had wasted the day by sleeping.

“Hello, sleepyhead,” Omar said as Gerald sat up. “I was just thinking about waking you. Are you hungry?”

“Famished,” Gerald said, and his stomach growled as if to underscore his declaration.

Nedi and Erick were already at the table when they entered the reception cavern. They, too, had piles of paperwork in front of them.

“I told you she was going to organize everything,” Omar said quietly into Gerald’s ear as he guided him over to the table.

“Good,” Gerald said. “I’m not good at following up with my ideas. If she can organize this, I’m happy to let her.”

Nedi began talking as soon as Omar and Gerald were seated. With no preamble, she said, “It seems like there are really two prongs to this plan: one is bringing all the royals here for a showcase; the second is freeing all the guardians. There are a few ways to accomplish those things. The logistics depend on a few key factors: how we will be traveling to them, how they will be traveling to us, how much secrecy we need to have with either or both projects, and how long the dragonlands can provide hospitality for how many people prior to the start of the showcase.”

She paused there, and Gerald tried to decide if she had stopped to draw breath or if she was waiting for someone to start elaborating on her key factors. When she looked up from her papers and looked around the table, meeting each of their eyes in turn, Gerald figured it was probably the latter.

“Well, you’ll have to ask the dragon about that last one, but I would guess the answer would be ‘a lot of people for a long time’. I mean, compared to dragons, people—even a hundred-odd people—don’t eat much food or require much space,” he said slowly. “As for secrecy, quite a lot. You know about Erick’s spell to cloak the tracking spell, right? We’ll be using that to keep the Council from knowing everyone is coming here. They’re going to want to stop us, you know. I mean, we’re undermining the entire system.”

“But that in itself is going to raise suspicions,” Nedi said. “When everyone starts disappearing from the map, don’t you think the Council is going to investigate?”

“That’s why we’ll have to move people quickly once the spell takes effect. To scry someone, you have to know where they are, that’s what the dragon says. So if we move them away from their last known position fast enough, they won’t be able to find them.”

“Which brings us back to transportation,” Nedi interrupted. “I saw for myself how fast your dragon can fly, but it’s only one dragon.” She gestured to a map of the Thousand Kingdoms she had unrolled on the floor and marked with the locations of the royals awaiting rescue.

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